Over the Mountain Journal got the inside scoop from Santa himself on what it’s like to go around the world in a single night!1. Do you have to pay tariffs on sleighing your products into the U.S.? You can’t place tariffs on Santa’s magic!2. Does Mrs. Claus like you to get out of the house? Mrs. Claus: I’ll answer this one. Kris and I spend a lot of time together all … [Read more...]

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School (OLS School) marked the Advent season with its annual Live Nativity and Living Advent Wreath. Family members and friends attended this prayerful celebration of the anticipation and joy of Christ’s birth.The program opened with a Living Advent Wreath, as students symbolically “lit” the candles representing hope, peace, joy, and love in … [Read more...]

The Megan Montgomery Foundation’s 4th Annual Gingerbread “Jam” Housebuilding raised $50,188 to help provide grants to high schools, colleges and nonprofits for education on healthy relationships and stop relationship violence BEFORE it starts.Building gingerbread houses was a special family tradition for Susann Montgomery-Clark, her daughters Meredith and Megan Montgomery … [Read more...]

United Way Area Agency on Aging (UWAAA) is collecting donations of store-bought holiday cakes, cookies and pies to deliver to seniors in long-term care at 40 boarding homes in Jefferson County. The donations are all part of “Home Sweet Home for the Holidays,” an annual project of UWAAA’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman program, which oversees area facilities and advocates for … [Read more...]

By Tyler PalmquistIt is well documented that regular exercise has profound benefits on our mental health. Yet only about 25% of Americans engage in regular exercise that meets guidelines (Yaseyyedi, 2020). So why is it that so few Americans engage in regular exercise when it has such tremendous mental and physical benefits? At this point in history, it would be difficult to … [Read more...]